African Bullfrog Feeding Plan

[Truffs1178]

Well at the minute mine is only a baby at around 3 inches long so how often would you recommend dusting insects with calcium and vitamin? I currently dust every other day with a combo of calcium and vitamin like I was originally told. Is this ok? The product is Komodo Amphibian Insect Dusting Powder. It would be really helpful to me if anyone could look this up and tell me if I am using it correctly. I presume I am though because that's what I was told to do when I first got it.

[Lija]

no it is not ok and that is why i think all those mixes with ca and multivitamins is not something to be used. Fast growing baby needs more ca/vitd3 then vitamins and if you use combo powder he'll get too many vitamins that would lead to not-so-good things, but at the same time he won't get enough Ca that would lead to also not-so-good problems. so you need following schedule:
every second feeding use Ca/vit D3 and once a week multivitamins, but not together. my favorite product line is repashy, their powders are very fine and covers insects/worms very nicely, but reptical ( for Ca/vit D3) is great too. i don't know what is available around you, but look for ca supplements that would have vit D3 as well as separate multivitamins.

will look for your supplement in a minute

[Truffs1178]

no it is not ok and that is why i think all those mixes with ca and multivitamins is not something to be used. Fast growing baby needs more ca/vitd3 then vitamins and if you use combo powder he'll get too many vitamins that would lead to not-so-good things, but at the same time he won't get enough Ca that would lead to also not-so-good problems. so you need following schedule:
every second feeding use Ca/vit D3 and once a week multivitamins, but not together. my favorite product line is repashy, their powders are very fine and covers insects/worms very nicely, but reptical ( for Ca/vit D3) is great too. i don't know what is available around you, but look for ca supplements that would have vit D3 as well as separate multivitamins.

will look for your supplement in a minute

Please could you recommend to me and actual product (not brand) that is a good calcium and d3 combo and another for multivitamins. If you could recommend a few then that would be helpful because you probably get different stuff where you live.

[Lija]

i wasn't able to find contents if that powder you have, would you be able to post a pic of it ( should be on a bottle), based on a description is is a mix of everything = not so good, but i might be wrong, hard to say without knowing what is inside.

[Truffs1178]

Is the exo terra stuff good? They make a calcium powder, a calcium+d3 powder and a multivitamin powder. Take a look on the exo terra website under nutrition in the products section.

[Lija]

yeah exo terra is a good stuff, i'm looking for some links for repashy

[Truffs1178]

Ok so how many times a week would I use the exo terra calcium+d3 and how man times a week the exo terra multivitamin and on how many insects?

Remember this is for a baby frog about 3 inches long.

Also it says on the calcium powder and the multivitamin powder that its suitable for reptiles and amphibians but on the calcium+d3 powder it says suitable for reptiles. It doesn't even mention amphibians. Will it still be ok?

[Lija]

ok repashy:
-ca/vit d3 REPASHY SUPERFOODS :: SUPPLEMENTS :: CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS :: SuperCal MeD -
-vitamins ( my very favorite by far) REPASHY SUPERFOODS :: SUPPLEMENTS :: OTHER SUPPLEMENTS :: SuperVite -


Repti Calcium® with D3
Exo Terra : Calcium + D3 / Calcium + D3 Powder Supplement
Exo Terra : Multi Vitamin / Multi Vitamin Powder Supplement
Rep-Cal Supplements

but there are so so many different ones

[Truffs1178]

I think I'm gonna go with the exo terra stuff coz its easily available in Uk.

[Lija]

it doesn't matter re what is written, i use same stuff for all.
as i said before go every second feeding with ca/vitd3 and once a week multivitamins.
do you feed every day? then you can do:
mon/wed/fri - ca/vit d3
tue/thurs/sat - nothing
sun- multivitamins

[Truffs1178]

Ok. Thanks so much you have been a great help and saved my frog. I'll buy some of Ebay now. Over the next few days until it arrives will he be ok just to use that calcium and vitamin stuff?

[Lija]

you're welcome
don't worry about it, one day here, one day there, no need to go ocd about it you can use your powder meanwhile or nothing, it is all good.

P.S. your tank and a frog is very nice, but keep in mind if that is actually a male your tank the way it is now will be good not for long lol the guy might be twice as big in a month